Another failure scenario

2000-06-21 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Hi, 2 disks with RH 5.2, kernel 2.2.14 + RAID-patch: root and swap are regular partitions, while /tmp, /var and /usr are mirrored. Yesterday I installed a new bootdisk (the other one had medium errors in the root-partition) and of course the new disk has a different geometry. Anyway, I managed to

Re: AW: Life stages

2000-06-20 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Martin Bene writes: > I don't know what a .shs file is suposed to do, but from the contents > I'd guess this email is something like the iloveyou worm. Contents of /var/tmp/scanmails25438/unpacked /var/tmp/scanmails25438/unpacked: total 43 drwxr-xr-x2 root root 1024 Jun 20 08:22 .

Re: redhat 6.2 and RAID patches

2000-05-25 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Christoph Terhechte writes: > I just bought Red Hat 6.2 to set up an intranet database server. One > of the reasons for my choice was their claim for improved RAID > management. Browsing trough this list, however, I keep reading about > RAID patches that should be applied to the kernel sources bef

Failed disk - how will it reboot?

2000-04-25 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Hi, on a server one disk had a "medium error" and the RAID1 (2.2.14-B1) disabled one of the mirrors. It looks like this: md0 : active raid1 sdb5[1] sda5[0](F) 4739072 blocks [2/1] [_U] If I reboot now, how will the system react? Will it recognize the failed partition or (worst case) will it try

Trouble with 2.2.13ac3 - update

2000-01-24 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Hi, last Friday I updated the buggy machine to 2.2.14 (B1) - until then the problem with the "attempt to access beyond end of device" causing "only one disk left and IO error." happened three times. On one occasion the backup (tar) croaked about one file "shrunk by" about 6MB (the file had 7MB)

Re: RedHat 6.1

2000-01-11 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Tim Niemueller writes: > I will get a new computer in some days and I want to build up an array. > I will use a derivate of RedHat Linux 6.1 (Halloween 4). There is RAID > support in the graphical installation tool, so I think the RAID patches > are already attached to the kernel. Yes, just like

Re: Trouble with 2.2.13ac3

2000-01-10 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
James Manning writes: > What worries me is that what looks like is happening is that the > md-layer is passing a very-invalid sector request (for whatever reason > it got that far) down to the devices making up your raid1 and since the > ll_rw_blk::make_request() fails the md-layer tags that as a

Trouble with 2.2.13ac3

2000-01-09 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Hi, I recently upgraded one machine from the original RedHat 5.2/kernel 2.0.36 RAID-stuff (using RAID1) to kernel 2.2.13ac3 with raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz. The partition table on both disks looks like this: Device BootStart End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1

Re: A view from the other side...

1999-07-08 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Mike Frisch writes: > > - duplicating a partition layout is much easier :) > > Does this mean it's possible to build a RAID1 configuration from a single > disk without having to reformat? What I meant was, that I can read the partition table with "disklabel", modify it a bit and write it on

Re: A view from the other side...

1999-07-08 Thread Jochen Scharrlach
Mike Frisch writes: > Looks pretty interesting, but I am not a FBSD user, so I have no idea > how functional, robust, etc. it is. All I can say is that Linux > software RAID needs some decent documentation like this. In the past I was setting up 4 servers using Linux-RAID1: - 2 with the ol